Today’s Best Word Ever is ataraxia: calmness untouched by mental or emotional disquiet.
Circa 1600 noun—also Anglicized as ataraxy—from Modern Latin, from Greek ataraxia, “impassiveness,” from a- + tarassein “to disturb, confuse.”
The first day of summer vacation the kids rose with a roar at 5:30
and Mom was already reaching deep within to achieve ataraxia.
I musk be calm! I musk be calm!